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Showing Original Post only (View all)WTF is wrong with our young people?? [View all]
I was I college 67-71 and our generation was on the front lines protesting the VN War for what seemed like forever. Whats about to happen to this Country once the Orange Anus is exonerated and the checks and balance power of Congress becomes a moot point is terrifying. Seriously, WTF is wrong with these young people? Are they incapable of seeing how their lives are going to change for the worse?
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If young people voted in any numbers approaching the older voter Hillary would be in
randr
Jan 2020
#25
I was one of probably a small number of people over 50 who didn't vote for Trump.
Different Drummer
Jan 2020
#56
Well, 26.5% of all eligible voters, voted for DT. Were they all over 50? Doubtful.
58Sunliner
Jan 2020
#80
Right?! If they aren't being taught civics in school it's because the older generations eliminated
Luciferous
Jan 2020
#179
Yeah, sure. Meanwhile, all the nazis and white supremacists associated with trump...
brush
Jan 2020
#174
When it comes to collective action, most people need someone to activate and organize them.
WhiskeyGrinder
Jan 2020
#227
But they have -- anti-gun marches, climate change marches, anti-trafficking marches, etc.
WhiskeyGrinder
Jan 2020
#231
I wish I could have been able to name each of the speakers during that gun control rally.
CaptYossarian
Jan 2020
#81
The younger generation will have their own conservative assholes to deal with
BigDemVoter
Jan 2020
#204
No thanks. i'm not taking the bait. Stop the generation bashing and get out the vote...
brush
Jan 2020
#218
I agree with your list at the bottom of your post. I don't agree that there haven't...
brush
Jan 2020
#221
You left out the hippies who came after the beatniks and were generally leftists.
brush
Jan 2020
#110
Add republicans mace their asses too. People often treat their best siblings the worst. nt
Blue_true
Jan 2020
#101
Yep, same deal. Thanks for saying it. Many seem to think all boomers are trumpers.
brush
Jan 2020
#108
Well that is just plain ignorance on their part. They're not paying attention.
YOHABLO
Jan 2020
#251
Are you under the impression that young people aren't working to change things?
Cuthbert Allgood
Jan 2020
#54
I think our youth are no more incapable of seeing how their lives will change
LanternWaste
Jan 2020
#58
If you don't think young people are doing something, you're not paying attention.
WhiskeyGrinder
Jan 2020
#59
I know that, it was the 'under 30' vote and judging by the 1972 vote it wouldn't have made a great
braddy
Jan 2020
#208
A lot of young people today are anti-government, they really don't give a shit
Blue_true
Jan 2020
#107
The young people I know are, for the most part, motivated and politically active.
democrank
Jan 2020
#67
Yeah, the "something" we did was to smoke dope, go to rock festivals, protest sciences we knew...
NNadir
Jan 2020
#141
Well, our President is Kruger-Dunning material, and in my opinion so are those who hold...
NNadir
Jan 2020
#147
The things that I hate about Boomer recollections is the rampant revisionism.
Blue_true
Jan 2020
#112
I did protest, and was told on numerous occasions that if I did not like it here,
guillaumeb
Jan 2020
#146
We were a warrior generation that produced 10 million veterans, not to mention massive protests and
braddy
Jan 2020
#162
WTF is wrong with our old people? Seniors support 45 more than any other age group by far.
LonePirate
Jan 2020
#126
Every weekend, I go out and find the bars and restaurants packed with young people...
brooklynite
Jan 2020
#226
Well, if you go to bars, you will face what we scientists call "selection pressure."
NNadir
Jan 2020
#232
Perhaps in your anger you forget the point of this thread was "why don't young people vote"...
brooklynite
Jan 2020
#244
I not defending anything that boomers did or didn't do. I'm criticizing millenials for not voting.
brooklynite
Jan 2020
#255
" Boomers expect everyone to clean up their shit, but they took all the shovels and bags."
Codeine
Jan 2020
#144
In 1972 the draft was on, the Vietnam war was on, drugs, hippies, and 52% of under 30s voted GOP.
braddy
Jan 2020
#157
WTF is wrong with angry old people?! Have you heard about March for Our Lives? Or the climate
Luciferous
Jan 2020
#180
They are great. They favor Dems two to one. They will kill the Republican Party.
Cicada
Jan 2020
#190
Did you know that the under 30s were the strongest supporters of the Vietnam war?
braddy
Jan 2020
#200
"You folks do it gleefully trying to drive some imaginary wedge between groups."
Mariana
Jan 2020
#209
We were long gone at the time of the embassy photos, that was a US embassy, not a military base.
braddy
Jan 2020
#263
Nothing is wrong with them, their motivation may be different, that doesn't make them wrong
Fiendish Thingy
Jan 2020
#261